Research Catalog

Title

Melancholy II / Jon Fosse ; translated by Eric Dickens.

Author

Fosse, Jon, 1959-

Publication

Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Dickens, Eric

Description

97 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig's sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, remembering Hertervig's difficulties fitting in, and likewise Hertervig the man: poor, always hovering on the brink, fanatical about painting and his own perceived shortcomings as an artist and human being. In the same hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves as an investigation not only into the 'collateral damage' wrought by art and artists, but into a master's tools and obsessions as well."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Norwegian literature series

Uniform Title

• Melancholia II. English
• Norwegian literature series

Alternative Title

Melancholia II.

Subject

• Brothers > Death > Fiction
• Death > Psychological aspects > Fiction
• Hertervig, Lars, 1830-1902 > Family > Fiction
• Hertervig, Oline > Fiction
• Norway > Fiction
• Old age > Fiction
• Sisters > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Biographical fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Stream of consciousness fiction

Note

• "Originally published in Norwegian as Melancholia II by Det Norske Samglet, Oslo, 1996"--Title page verso.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Norwegian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781564789044 (paperback : acid-free paper)
• 1564789047 (paperback : acid-free paper)

LCCN

• ^^2013040497
• 40024121989

OCLC

861073139

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library